House Majority Whip Steve Scalise made an emotional return to Capitol Hill on Thursday, just over three months after he was gunned down by a madman during a practice for the annual congressional baseball game.

Scalise, using crutches, hobbled to his seat on the House floor about 11 a.m. to a sustained wave of applause and loud hoots and cheers from his colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

“Wow. You have no idea how great this feels to be back here at work in the people’s house,” an emotional Scalise told his fellow lawmakers as they gave him a prolonged standing ovation.

“As you can imagine, these last three-and-a-half months have been pretty challenging times for me and my family, but if you look at the outpouring of love, of warmth, of prayer. My gosh, Jennifer and I have been overwhelmed with all of that outpouring. It’s given us the strength to get through all of this and to get to this point today,” he said, referring to his wife.

Scalise, a man of deep faith, credited God — plus the Capitol police who shot and killed the attacker, and a fellow congressman who applied a tourniquet to his wounded leg — for his survival and recovery.

“When I was laying out on that ball field, the first thing I did once I was down and I couldn’t move anymore, is I just started to pray. And I will tell you, it gave me an unbelievable sense of calm knowing that at that point it was in God’s hands,” he said.

He praised Officers David Bailey and Crystal Griner, who returned fire and killed the shooter, James Hodgkinson, during the June 14 atrocity in suburban Virginia, even though they were wounded themselves.

“As soon as those shots were fired, I’ll tell you, when I was laying on the ground, one of the things I prayed for, is that David and Crystal would be successful in carrying out their duties,” he said in a dramatic recount of the chaotic scene.

“David and Crystal are incredibly well trained, incredibly professional, but when I was laying there not long after the first couple of shots were fired, I could hear a different caliber of weapon and that told me that they had immediately engaged the shooter,” he continued.

“Let me tell you, if they didn’t act so quickly, and even after being shot both themselves, continued to engage the shooter and ultimately got him down, which not only saved my life, but saved the life of a lot of other people that are here in this chamber today.”

Griner was unable to attend, but Bailey was in the audience and also got a huge round of applause.

And Scalise gave heartfelt thanks to Ohio GOP Rep. Brad Wenstrup, a former Army combat surgeon who raced to his side along with other colleagues.

“Right after the shooter was down, a lot of my colleagues came and ran to come check on me and one I want to mention in particular is Brad Wenstrup on the field that day and he was one of the first to come to my side,” Scalise said.

“Brad is not only a doctor, but he’s a decorated Army Ranger who served in combat and one of his roles and missions was to take care of people that were wounded before they went off on the helicopter to go get prepared,” he said.

“Who would have thought that God would have put Brad out there on the field with me because the tourniquet he applied, many will tell you, saved my life so that I could actually make it to the hospital in time.”

Scalise also thanked his colleagues for their care and support during his rehab and ongoing recovery, and was especially grateful to the world leaders who reached out to him.

“I was not expecting … the outpouring of love and support from world leaders. People I’ve met and known, [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu and I have had some incredible conversations from the hospital. [British Prime Minister] Theresa May reached out, King Abdullah of Jordan reached out,” he said.

He also issued a call for more bipartisanship and less personal rancor in the polarized lower chamber.

“I have passionate beliefs. For some reason, some of you don’t agree with all of those,” he said to laughter.

“We are the people’s house. This is the place where these ideas are supposed to be debated and … it’s so important that as we’re having those political battles, we don’t make them personal,” he said.